International Projects

Community Solidarity Fund

The Community Solidarity Fund provides funding to Manitoba not-for-profit, community-based groups involved in development projects overseas. The fund is available to non-member and MCIC affiliate members and provides another way to help Manitobans work together with partners around the world.

Building a Primary School for the Children of Ban Ngiew

SKL is Building a Primary School for the Children of Ban Ngiew to replace a dilapidated one with something more permanent and adequate. This offers local children an opportunity to learn in a proper, safe environment.

Capacity Building for Community Problem-Solving

The Capacity Building for Community Problem-Solving project works with staff and constituent communities of Peacebuilders Community Inc. Philippines, to develop, through training and mentoring, a core of leaders with skills for constructively processing community issues and providing problem-solving leadership on difficult issues.

Construction of a Sand Dam

The Rift Valley suffers from persistent drought, so riverbeds dry up quickly. The Construction of a Sand Dam will create a natural reservoir during the rainy season providing a year-round supply of water close to home. PWMC raises funds in Manitoba and works hands-on in Kenya so that women and girls in particular are spared the daily trek of fetching water from a distant source.

Migrant Workers’ Community Health Initiative

The Migrant Workers’ Community Health Initiative will mobilize health professionals as volunteers to provide public health for migrant children and to train migrant parents as community health workers. In China, there are over 230 million domestic migrant workers in cities who are generally denied access to healthcare, education and social services.

Quality Education & Safe Futures for Children & Youth

The Quality Education & Safe Futures for Children & Youth project provides teacher and community training to support educational and psychosocial needs of primary and secondary children and youth. Four university and five NGO partners are developing teacher training curriculum, resources and workshops to meet the needs of children living in post-conflict situations in three districts of South Sudan.

Sustainable Development for Grandmothers

The Sustainable Development for Grandmothers project will provide emotional and physical support for grandmothers who are raising their own grandchildren in the context of the HIV/AIDS situation in East Africa. GGG will help grandmothers to develop sustainable livelihoods to pay for school tuition fees, food and clothing for their grandchildren.

Vocational Training Centre for Women & People with Disabilities

The Vocational Training Centre for Women & People with Disabilities will provide training to women and people with disabilities in dressmaking and computer data entry in a village setting in Western Kasai, DRC. Sustainable employment will help people who are facing degrading levels of poverty and vulnerability.

Youth Looking In Speaking Out on Self-Harm

The Youth Looking In Speaking Out on Self-Harm project connects youth in Kathmandu, Nepal with students in Canadian classrooms to share their views via video and through documented forum events on issues around self-harm and addictions.

Dairy Farming in Busowa

Dairy Farming in Busowa will work with HIV/AIDS affected and infected individuals in the Bugiri District of Uganda, increasing their incomes and diets. This will be accomplished via distribution of cows/bulls, husbandry training, shelter building, record keeping, and integrating crop production of food with management of resources.

Humanitarian Visit

Humanitarian Visit will involve school personnel and students from Ste. Anne, Manitoba working with a girls’ orphanage and school to build recreational structures, plant a garden and deliver primary school programs on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic.

This program was made possible with financial support of the Government of Manitoba, and was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through Global Affairs Canada (GAC)